The History Of Greek Culture
.... of theories of knowledge. They invented what is known in literature as rhetoric, or the art of composing and delivering persuasive speeches. The Sophist movement contributed to the rise of prose over poetry in Athens, as shown with the attached pictures.
The ancient Greeks did not establish one unified country. Instead they established city-states, each called a polis, which were self-governed and independent. They often warred with each other, the two most persistent enemies being Athens and Sparta.
Athens and Sparta were left the two most powerful cities in Greece during the Golden Age, after the Persian War. Spart .....
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Transcendentalism
.... adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of the human mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspirationm and in ecstasy. He wishes that the spiritual principle should be suffered to deomonstrate itself to the end, in all possible applications to the state of man, without the admission of anything unspiritual; that is, anything positive, dogmatic, personal. Thus, the spiritual measure of inspiration is the depth of the thought, and never, who said it? And so he resisits all attempts to palm other rules and measures on the spirit than its own.
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The Absurd And Camus
.... not, in itself, the idea of the Absurd.
"What is absurd is the confrontation between the sense of the irrational and the overwhelming desire for clarity which resounds in the depths of man."
The Absurd is thus a pointless quest for meaning in a universe devoid of purpose. It is a totally human foible and, once again, only defines the begining of the questioning of existence. Coming to terms with the Absurd is what essentially concerns Camus, because this accounts for the terrible "weight and strangeness" of the world as experienced by every human being. The feeling of absurdity is "the separation between man and his life", an .....
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Sioux And Dakota
.... The reason that this tactic did not work on the whites was because the white man’s ethic of fighting was no where near the ethics of the Sioux. White man believed that they had a given right to annihilate anyone they wanted. This is why the tactics of the Sioux people were not successful when it came to fighting off the whites of the time.
Sitting Bull, was in essence and renaissance man of personality. He was equally friendly, fierce, spiritual and family oriented. However, he also had many strict principals when it came to the rights of his people. This is the quality that differentiated him from chief Red Cloud; .....
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City Engineer And Director Of Public Works
.... knowledge. During the winter, heavy storms occur in the city. It becomes clear to those involved that if the plant's waste water is not released into the local river, the ponds will overflow and dump all of the waste into the river. Under state law, this condition must be reported to the State Water Pollution Control Authority.
In the Code of Ethics it states that: "Engineers, in the fulfillment of their professional duties, shall hold paramount the safety, health and welfare of the public in the performance of their professional duties." And it also states that: "Engineers shall at all times recognize that their primary obliga .....
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Women In Boxing
.... sex. For example, when men act in an aggressive manner, most people just write off their actions as an expected part of their being male. Yet, if women demonstrate the exact same aggressive behavior, they are viewed ads being “manly” or acting out of line. “However, in studies using tests to gauge feeling of aggression, no differences between males and females have been found.” This proves that women are no less inherently aggressive than men.
So, what does this have to do with women and professional boxing? One woman in the Cosmopolitan poll answered, “I think that women who try to be as aggressive as men end up blurr .....
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Cats As Pets
.... are hungry or want some attention. They are generally happy just to lead a quiet and content life. They don’t usually have “accidents” in the house either. ?They can be trained very quickly on how to use the litter box, and when they know where it is and why it is used, they will always seem to use it. Since cats do have claws, and have a tendency to use them in places they shouldn’t, there should be a scratching post or something of that nature close by so that they can exercise their claws without doing damage to your furniture or curtains. It keeps both you and them happy.
Last of all, the best feature of having a cat is th .....
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Influences Of Chinese Culture
.... attitudes, life patterns, and social virtues. It also has provided the background for Chinese political theories and institution. I noticed that although it became the official ideology of the Chinese state, it has never existed as an established religion with a church and priesthood. Confucius taught that benevolence toward fellow human beings, moral behavior and sound family relationships are the essence of a harmonious and well ordered society which the Chinese called ren.
The second most important stream of Chinese thought is Daoism. Its formulation is attributed to the legendary sage Lao Zi, who introduced or predate Con .....
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American Football
.... the team defending is called the defense. Players involved in kicking situations are known as the special teams. The 11 players of the offensive team are divided into 7 linemen, who play on the line of scrimmage (an imaginary line designating the position of the ball) and a backfield of 4 players, called backs. The linemen are the center, the left and right guards, the left and right tackles, the tight end, and the split end. The back who directs the play of the offensive team is known as the quarterback. Teams may also use fullbacks and halfbacks. Wide receivers often replace ends or backs, lining up wide of the rest of the form .....
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The Story Of Chanukah
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Later, the Ptolemaic Empire of Egypt and the Sleucid Empire of Syria fought to gain control of Judea. The Selucids won. Judea was ruled by the Syrian king Antiochus IV who did not allow the Jews to freely worship one God but demanded that everyone bow down to the many idols of Greek religion.
A strong-willed old priest named Mattathias grew increasingly outraged with the Syrian dictate. He stirred up the passions of his people, urging them to fight against the religious oppression. With his five sons and a band of Jewish settlers - mostly farmers and shepherds - Mattathias fled the town of Modin, outside Jerusalem, and ga .....
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Ukraine’s Genocide
.... searched and looted of food and fuel. Ukrainians quickly began to die of hunger, cold, and sickness. When OGPU failed to meet weekly execution quotas, Stalin sent Lazar Kaganovitch, to destroy Ukrainian resistance. Kaganovitch, the soviet Eichmann, made quota, shooting 10,000 Ukrainians weekly. Eighty percent of all Ukrainian intellectuals were executed. Ukrainian Nikita Khruschchev helped supervise the slaughter. The precise number of Ukrainians murdered Stalin’s custom-made famine and checka firing squads remains unknown to this day; six million other farmers across the USSR were starved during collectivization. Stalin told Chu .....
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Men's Basketball
.... play for college. After college few make it to the American and National leauges. Some even find playing in Europe satisfys their love for playing basketball.
Mens Basketball has always defined the way basketball was played. In the 1990's the NBA opened a concurrent leauge by initiating the WNBA. The first professional womans basketball leauge opened the door for girl athletes. It had always been the "boys" were more athletic, but now its becoming more of a womens world. I'd like to see a common man play Cynthia Cooper one-on-one.
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